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Lessons for the Living -- Mark

Posted by Greg Schneider on October 2, 2011 at 9:38am
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Mark on Facing the Dying "There are those who delude themselves about mortality and there are those who don't ." Moving through his high school hallways, Mark recounts the first time he entered the hospice unit at age 18 - "You have to leave yourself at the door...you become an empty vessel." He meets a terminally ill man with a broken voice who will tell him things about life no text book could ever write. Hospice care provides humane care for terminally-ill people in the last phases of their life, as well as working to benefit those who are not immediately dying. This is one segment of the documentary film, "Lessons for the Living." Lessons for the Living Film at: lessonsforthelivingfilm.com Contribute your own hospice story at lessonsforthelivingstories.com DIRECTOR Lily Henderson CINEMATOGRAPHER Ed David PRODUCER Leslie Koren / Shani Hashaviah

HVA Members can purchase this very reasonably priced film at a discount for use in their training by clicking on one of the following links:

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Full Length version

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  • Greg Schneider October 2, 2011 at 9:42am
    Mark is a rare human being...he is in high school and has already been a hospice volunteer for over 3 years now. I admire the courage and compassion of this young man. His life going forward will be positively affected in ways he doesn't even realize at this point.
    Greg Schneider
    President, HVA
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